Re: [PATCH] pathspec: rename per-item field has_wildcard to use_wildcard

Michael J Gruber [off-list ref] writes:

Maybe we can make the ":" literal
when it can't be parsed, or make it do something (":/" as you
suggested), because swallowing it and then doing nothing seems doubly bad.

Another possible tweak would be to make ":" without even any "pattern"
after it to become a no-element, in order to allow the same difference
between "git log" and "git log ." to be expressed from within a
subdirectory.

The difference matters when you have commits created with --allow-empty
that are discarded by path based history simplification.